Heart disease leads county deaths

Alzheimer's fatalities increased in 2012

10:01 PM,
Feb. 24, 2013

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Last year, Alzheimer's disease eclipsed strokes as the fourth-leading cause of death in Richland County for the third time since 2001.

The Mansfield/Ontario/Richland County Health Department recently posted the final vital statistics for 2012. The health department has tracked Alzheimer's as a cause of death since 2001. Sixty people died from it last year.

"Alzheimer's is a degenerative brain thing," health educator Reed Richmond said. "You get to a point where you're no longer functioning." ...